Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Friday, March 6th, 2009
The University used to have an online searchable "phonebook" that was invaluable when students needed to contact each other. The information displayed by default listed name, email, major, address, phone number, web site address, and department (if the student worked for the University). This has all been disabled except for ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Notepad++ is one of my favorite text editors for Windows, but getting the spell checker - GNU Aspell - to work can be slightly tricky.
The key is do not forget to install the dictionary. Both the Windows installer and the pre-compiled dictionaries for Windows are available on the Aspell Windows ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Recently I've been opening up files that don't have a program assigned to their file extension. Each time I try to open these files, Windows prompts me with a dialog asking me is I want to "Use the Web service to find the correct program" - no thank you, Windows.
So, ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Here's a customizable little PHP script that takes a Twitter username, password, and RSS feed and prints out however many of the last twitter entries you choose.
There's a lot of documentation out there on the Twitter API, but it was hard for me to find a small quick script to ...
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
As an Illinois student, I find myself constantly searching the Illinois Phonebook Gateway. Also known simply as the "PH" due to it's URL (http://illinois.edu/ows/PH), the site will take a NetID (the user name that all Illinois students use for any computer/internet activity) or a name and display information (email address, ...
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